Parsons Etude Reimagined (2020) — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
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Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Parsons Etude Reimagined (2020)

Name: Stacy Pottinger
Department: Fine Arts
Type of research: Independent research
Funding: N.A.

Name: Geovanni Virella-Torres
Major: Graphic Design/Dance
Hometown: Green Bay
Faculty Sponsor: Stacy Pottinger
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Independent research
Funding: N.A.

Abstract

Parsons Etude Reimagined (2020) is a dance made for film directed, staged, adapted, and edited by Professor Stacy Pottinger. The work is based on Parsons Etude (1999), choreographed by David Parsons. This reimagining explores more dynamic and embodied ways of capturing dance on film. Over the years, Carthage dancers have performed studies based on American modern dance masterworks through the Dancing Legacy Repertory Etudes Collection, commissioned by Carolyn Adams and Julie Adams Strandberg. Each year, the Theatre Department's Fall dance concert features at least one Repertory Etude. As a result, a relationship has formed between Dancing Legacy, the Carthage Dance Minor, and Professor Pottinger, who is now a member of Dancing Legacy's Educators' Cohort. For Parsons Etude Reimagined, Pottinger adapted the Parsons Etude source material for video, and commissioned Milwaukee-based composer, Allen Russell to create a new music piece inspired by the original Etude score, composed by Tony Powell.

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